Devil's Porridge by Chris Longmuir

Devil's Porridge by Chris Longmuir

Murder, Mystery, and Munitions

East London, January 1917:

He pulled her into his arms and kissed her long and hard before he strangled her. With a last glance at the fire, he turned and ran for the door to escape the inevitable explosion.

Sixteen-year-old munitionette, Sally, witnesses the saboteur escaping from the explosion at Silvertown Munitions Factory. When their paths cross again at Gretna Munitions Factory, he knows she can identify him, and that he dare not hesitate to kill again.

The explosion has set off a lethal chain of events, and when Policewoman Kirsty Campbell, and MI6 agent Beatrice, join forces to protect Sally, they find themselves following a murderous trail that entangles them with saboteurs, Irish revolutionaries, a German spy, and a plot to assassinate the King.

The body count is rising. The clock is ticking. And the stakes are higher than Kirsty could ever have imagined.

Chris Longmuir is an award-winning novelist as well as an established writer of short stories and articles. Night Watcher, the first book in the Dundee Crime Series, won the Scottish Association of Writers' Pitlochry Award, and the sequel, Dead Wood, won the Dundee International Book Prize, as well as the Pitlochry Award.

Chris Longmuir, while being born in Wiltshire, lives in a small beach village on Scotland's east coast and considers herself a Scot. She worked in shops, offices, mills, factories, and even as a bus conductress after she graduated from high school at the age of 15. She worked as a social worker for Angus Council (later as Assistant Principal Officer for Adoption and Fostering) after receiving her degree and has experience working with drug users and HIV patients. Chris began writing in 1990 and has since published several short pieces.